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AlexeyBrin

11,534karma·1,345submissions·January 25, 2013
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You can get VS 2013 Community Edition for free (it is basically the Pro edition with a different name), for your personal use or for companies with less than 5 people.
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Most C++ hard core game developers don't even use the STL that comes with the language ... Why do you think they will even consider linking the huge Boost library with their game ? Also, the use …
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Phaser.js was at some point in the past written in TypeScript, the current version is implemented in JS and you can use it from TS if you wish. (Also, they will probably ditch the Pixi renderer in t…
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+1 I stand corrected. I've updated my tests and qsort seems to be faster than sort, for this particular test case.
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Let's try again, with a more C++14 like solution: sort(v.begin(),v.end(),[](const auto x, const auto y) { return *x > *y; }); instead of your line 39: sort(v.begin(),v.end(),[…
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There is no protection against fraud on Freelancer. If a buyer issues a charge back on his credit card after the project is paid and delivered, you are screwed. Freelancer declines any responsibility …
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> [Go] It has the potential to surpass C++ in a few decades though, as it operates in the same domain (systems programming). Nope, Go and C++ operate on different domains, Go is garbage c…
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I've always wondered if the "disable the arrow key" advice given to every VIM novice makes any sense for the user of a 11" - 13" laptop. It was probably a good advice for a cl…
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> Somehow on Core I7, 26GB ram + SSD it still takes me less time to make a cup of coffee than for Eclipse to start up :( Eclipse (I use Luna which seems to be faster than the previous version) star…
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How about support for NDK (C++ development) ? Does the Android Studio ships with support for C++ editing ?
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Do you have proper drivers for your video card on Ubuntu ? On my MacBook Air runs smooth on both Chrome and Firefox. Same on Windows 8.1. Unfortunately, I can't test it on Ubuntu because I don&#x…
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Preferably a WebGL capable browser and video card, otherwise Three.js could potentially switch to HTML5 canvas.
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> Clang support is only planned as compile target for Android and eventually iOS. I know they plan to officially support only Android and iOS. However, even today I can use Clang to create Windows …
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Visual Studio 2013 has better support for C99, here is an article from MSDN about it http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/07/19/c99-librar... . Bu…
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He wants his website because he wants to have two main sections - one for his photos and one for blogging about photography. I think he intends to let other people use his photos for free as long as t…
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Thanks for your suggestion, I'll think about it and talk to my friend.
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You mean the concept of a sparse matrix ? Well, for e.g. if you use FEM (Finite Element method) you usually end up with a huge linear system which has the nice property that more than 90% of his coeff…
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Maybe this will help http://google-chrome.en.uptodown.com/mac/old (fair warning, I didn't actually tried to download/use any of these).…
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In the context of learning to code in C, I think Zed Shaw is right. Using a plain text editor will help you understand the language. Hopefully Zed will start working again on the C book, now that he f…
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> Or wait for Windows 10 when it'll be free for personal users. Do you have any reference for this ? Will Microsoft release Windows 10 for free for individuals ?
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"it's slow" "just write a C extension" "but then why use Python?" Because you typically need to write a C extension for like 2% or your code, while…
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₹35000 (rupees) and not $ 3500 (US dollars)!
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I doubt he will use SDL, the author mentions in another video that he is interested in implementing his own render. Also, he claims he won't use DirectX or OpenGL.
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Judging by the initial video, you won't be able to follow this without a Windows machine. The author plans to implement a game from scratch (no third party library will be used) in C on Windows, …
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Thanks, I've seen their blog on other HN thread a few minutes ago. The future looks good if you write pure C# code, but if you want to use something like MonoGame you will still need to buy a Xam…
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